Judges 6:17
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New International Version (©2011)
Gideon replied, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, give me a sign that it is really you talking to me.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Gideon replied, "If you are truly going to help me, show me a sign to prove that it is really the LORD speaking to me.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And he said to him, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, then show me a sign that it is you who speak with me.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
So Gideon said to Him, "If now I have found favor in Your sight, then show me a sign that it is You who speak with me.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And he said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, then shew me a sign that thou talkest with me.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Then he said to Him, "If I have found favor in Your sight, give me a sign that You are speaking with me.

International Standard Version (©2012)
So Gideon asked him, "Please, if I have received favor from you, then do a miracle for me that shows that you're making this promise to me.

NET Bible (©2006)
Gideon said to him, "If you really are pleased with me, then give me a sign as proof that it is really you speaking with me.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Gideon said to him, "If you find me acceptable, give me a sign that it is really you speaking to me.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And he said unto him, If now I have found grace in your sight, then show me a sign that you talk with me.

American King James Version
And he said to him, If now I have found grace in your sight, then show me a sign that you talk with me.

American Standard Version
And he said unto him, If now I have found favor in thy sight, then show me a sign that it is thou that talkest with me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said: If I have found grace before thee, give me a sign that it is thou that speakest to me,

Darby Bible Translation
And he said to him, "If now I have found favor with thee, then show me a sign that it is thou who speakest with me.

English Revised Version
And he said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, then shew me a sign that it is thou that talkest with me.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he said to him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, then show me a sign that thou talkest with me.

World English Bible
He said to him, "If now I have found favor in your sight, then show me a sign that it is you who talk with me.

Young's Literal Translation
And he saith unto Him, 'If, I pray Thee, I have found grace in Thine eyes, then Thou hast done for me a sign that Thou art speaking with me.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

6:11-24 Gideon was a man of a brave, active spirit, yet in obscurity through the times: he is here stirred up to undertake something great. It was very sure that the Lord was with him, when his Angel was with him. Gideon was weak in faith, which made it hard to reconcile the assurances of the presence of God with the distress to which Israel was brought. The Angel answered his objections. He told him to appear and act as Israel's deliverer, there needed no more. Bishop Hall says, While God calls Gideon valiant, he makes him so. God delights to advance the humble. Gideon desires to have his faith confirmed. Now, under the influences of the Spirit, we are not to expect signs before our eyes such as Gideon here desired, but must earnestly pray to God, that if we have found grace in his sight, he would show us a sign in our heart, by the powerful working of his Spirit there, The Angel turned the meat into an offering made by fire; showing that he was not a man who needed meat, but the Son of God, who was to be served and honoured by sacrifice, and who in the fulness of time was to make himself a sacrifice. Hereby a sign was given to Gideon, that he had found grace in God's sight. Ever since man has by sin exposed himself to God's wrath and curse, a message from heaven has been a terror to him, as he scarcely dares to expect good tidings thence. In this world, it is very awful to have any converse with that world of spirits to which we are so much strangers. Gideon's courage failed him. But God spoke peace to him.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 17. - A sign that thou talkest with me - that it is indeed thou thyself that speakest to me, even God, and that there is no illusion.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And he said unto him, if now I have found grace in thy sight, &c. Or seeing he had, as appeared by his salutation of him as a man of might, by the work he gave him a commission to do, and by the promise of assistance and success:

then show me a sign that thou talkest with me; in the name of God, as a messenger sent by him, whether an angel or a man; for who he was as yet Gideon was not clear in it, and that what he had said was truth, and would be certainly fulfilled; and which Gideon might desire, not so much, or at least not only for his own sake, and the confirmation of his faith, for which he is renowned, as that he might be able to satisfy others that he had a commission from God, by a messenger of his, to attempt the deliverance of Israel.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

Jud 6:17-32. Gideon's Present Consumed by Fire.

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Gideon's Offering Consumed with Fire
17And he said to him, If now I have found grace in your sight, then show me a sign that you talk with me. 18Depart not hence, I pray you, until I come to you, and bring forth my present, and set it before you. And he said, I will tarry until you come again. 19And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out to him under the oak, and presented it. …

Judges 6:18 Please do not go away until I come back and bring my offering and set it before you." And the LORD said, "I will wait until you return."
Judges 6:37 look, I will place a wool fleece on the threshing floor. If there is dew only on the fleece and all the ground is dry, then I will know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you said."
1 Kings 13:3 That same day the man of God gave a sign: "This is the sign the LORD has declared: The altar will be split apart and the ashes on it will be poured out."
Psalm 86:17 Give me a sign of your goodness, that my enemies may see it and be put to shame, for you, LORD, have helped me and comforted me.
Isaiah 38:7 "'This is the LORD's sign to you that the LORD will do what he has promised:
Isaiah 38:8 I will make the shadow cast by the sun go back the ten steps it has gone down on the stairway of Ahaz.'" So the sunlight went back the ten steps it had gone down.